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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8926)	9/4/2006 7:37:04 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219505

While there are prices attached to things, they are in short supply." No discussion on this one. It follows that if there is no scarcity, prices would plummet. Which is not good to suppliers. Hence scarcity is artificially increase prices. That's why we have cartels like OPEC. Labor unions. Immigration laws, tariffs and non-tariffs barriers and last but not the least, wayos. See how economics doesn't make sense: If QCOM, MSFT, Ericsson or Nokia produces something, they sell it and they still have it. Brazil forces a lab to sell cheaper AIDS drugs else they copy it and sell at a cheaper prices. I think this is correct. If you sell drugs to a small country, they pay the same prices Brazil pays. A country with a bigger market, such as Brazil, should buy stuff cheaper than a country with a small market. See when you apply economics you have no case. English has a big value for me because without it I could not have earned my money. The cost of acquiring the skills, (going to school 4 hours every Saturday for 2 and half years) was mine. I paid for it. Furthermore, English has borrowed from Latin and Greek and the Greek and the Latins have not copyrighted their language nor have any claim in the languages that derived and borrowed from it. English, left for itself, alone, would have only those three four letter words: arm, leg, eye, hand, foot, stop go. All sophistication comes form Latin and Greek. We don't go to Tiger and tell him to pay the British for inventing Golf. Reminds me of Apple Computer trying to patent the 'look and feel' of the Macintosh interface to prevent MSFT to implement Windows.